climate change is like pressure building in a bottle. You can only cork it for so long before there's some kind of structural failure and the champagne is all over the floor with broken glass everywhere.
flathead
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meanwhile in the US:
Affordable home insurance is getting increasingly hard to find in wildfire-prone areas in the West. Climate change, along with flammable fuel buildup, is causing bigger, more frequent and more destructive wildfires, putting more and more homes at risk. Meanwhile, climate change is also driving other costly disasters, such as hurricanes and flooding. https://www.hcn.org/issues/56.1/wildfire-homeowners-insurance-is-going-up-in-smoke
it says here.
it says here
that the unions will never learn
it says here
that the economy is on the upturn
and it says here
we should be proud that we are free
and that our free press reflects our democracy
- Billy Bragg (a boomer)
sounds like a load of bullshit, tbh.
the best part...
"The CaliExpress by Flippy location will also double as a pseudo-museum experience presented by Miso Robotics. Guests can see dancing robot arms, experimental 3D-printed artifacts, photographic displays and more."
they said they left home because the fish are gone.
This is what comes up searching for their town, Fass Boye:
A waste of fish: Food security under threat from the fishmeal and fish oil industry in West Africa' is a 2019 report into food security in the region. Greenpeace Africa is calling on governments to immediately phase it out to stop the threat to regional fish stocks, which are essential for the food security and livelihoods of local people.
https://media.greenpeace.org/collection/27MZIFJ82G50O
"So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race."
yes, it's a commercial problem, as you point out - however it's appalling to leave people completely without assistance if they are in obvious peril at sea. Rendering assistance need not obligate them to bring them aboard - but some basic humanity would dictate to not just abandon them to die. But of course there is stuff to deliver and schedules to meet - business is business...
'Massive cargo ships passed the would-be migrants by almost every day, destabilizing their shaky wooden canoe-like boat, known as a pirogue. No one came to their rescue. Under international law, captains are required “to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost.” But the law is hard to enforce. '
Words fail.
mine was also named Sally. 35 years and it still stings.
pull the other one.
If you were taught on a typewriter, you double space for life. It's impossible to stop once ingrained.
Sounds like it won't be long now...
CNN - The US Senate Budget Committee is launching an investigation into whether Florida’s state-backed home and property insurance company has enough money in the bank to withstand future disasters, as scientists warn warming oceans and sea level rise are making storms more destructive.
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation exists as a so-called insurer of last resort - if owners cannot convince a private insurance company to cover their property, Citizens will step in. It insures about 1.3 million policyholders in the state, who typically pay more money for a policy that covers less.
But as coastlines disappear and storms get wetter and more dangerous, risk is through the roof for many of the properties Citizens insures, putting intense financial pressure on the state-backed company. During a March press conference, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “I think most people know Citizens has not been solvent.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/30/business/florida-insurance-senate-investigation-climate/index.html